Chapter 220: Someone actually asked Yu Zhiqian to borrow money?
It's not that Yu Zhiqian doesn't want to directly destroy the Dongying Kingdom, but this matter is really urgent, after all, there is a lesson in history, and the Mongols lost more than 100,000 troops at sea.
Cross-sea operations, this era is really too dangerous, any storm, may destroy the fleet, and now the ships of the Yutang Empire are all building ships, this kind of ships look tall and mighty, but the draft is very low, and they are invincible on the river, but when it comes to the sea, the sea breeze is big and you can directly feed the sharks.
As for the road of fighting Goguryeo, the same is true, after fighting Goguryeo, and then fighting across the sea, it is still an old problem, there is no navy, and the naval component is not an overnight thing, ten years of navy, not a joke.
Yu Zhiqian is not in a hurry, the Dongying Kingdom will definitely be destroyed, his father can't destroy himself, he can be destroyed, if he has a short life, he still has a son, and when the time comes, the destruction of Dongying will be written into the ancestral teachings, Yu Zhiqian will not believe that Dongying cannot be destroyed.
After hearing Yu Zhiqian's words, the generals looked at the emperor again and shook their heads: "Could it be that the Dongying Kingdom is so disrespectful?" ”
"Of course you can't just forget it, aren't there still a lot of students in Dongying Kingdom in my court, those students or something, hehe!" Yu Zhiqian showed a hint of strange color, and he was already thinking about whether to kill them all, or to stay and cultivate some of them as spies, which was really a bit big.
"This matter will be discussed later, let's step down first!" The emperor thought about it for a while and decided to postpone this matter for the time being, the matter of the Dongying people is indeed as the prince said, and it is necessary to think about it in the long run, after all, for now, the information of the Dongying Kingdom is too little, and he only knows the approximate location, and there are too many things to prepare for launching a war of annihilation.
And now there are many people, and the devil knows if any of them will secretly tell the news to the Dongying people for the sake of profit.
The emperor glanced at everyone in the hall: "Today's affairs about the Dongying Kingdom, no one is allowed to spread it, if there is any leakage, it will be punished for treason!" ”
"Son, the ministers obey!"
Everyone knows that this time the matter is absolutely not over, as the orthodoxy of the Central Plains, this kind of heresy is absolutely not allowed, even if it is just a small country, this thing is a bit like a rebellion, if you are just an ordinary bandit, robbing homes and houses, the court may not care much about you, at most Daozhou will send some troops to suppress you.
But if you are called the emperor, even if you are in the mountains, there are only a few hundred or dozens of people, but the imperial court will still send generals to lead troops to exterminate them, this is about the legal system of the ruler, and there is absolutely no room for the slightest sloppiness.
After everyone retreated, Wu Sangui stood up and spoke slowly: "Xuan Su Dingfang, Qi Jingtong is here!" ”
After the sound spread, Su Dingfang and Qi Jingtong walked into the main hall, and many people focused their eyes on these two people, these two people can be regarded as new stars who have recently risen to the top of their ranks, and they are also one of the few people who have been knighted because of their military exploits in recent years.
"Minister Su Dingfang, Qi Jingtong, meet Your Majesty, Your Majesty ......"
The emperor glanced at the two people kneeling below, and raised his hand: "Xuan!" ”
"Feng, the heaven carries the emperor...... Su Dingfang had a meritorious service in destroying the country, and added the title of Dinghaihou, Qi Jingtong had a meritorious service in destroying the country, and he was crowned with a meritorious service in destroying the country, and Dingnanwei ......"
After Wu Sangui finished reading it, he slowly put down the holy decree and sent the holy decree to Su Dingfang, Su Dingfang was a little excited, and kowtowed three times in a row: "...... minister"
"Get up, the two generals have merit with the country, come here, give a seat!"
Immediately, the little eunuch carried the table and cushions and set them up in the middle of the hall, and Su Dingfang and Qi Jingtong sat down a little apprehensively.
"I heard that you have brought a lot of things with you when you returned to the court this time, tell me what you have!"
Su Dingfang hurriedly stood up: "Back to Your Majesty, this time to pacify the Nanyue Kingdom, the seizure is quite large, and Wechen obeyed the orders of His Royal Highness the Prince, searched near the Nanyue Kingdom, and found several spice islands, in addition, gold mines were also found in the territory of the Nanyue Kingdom, and there are countless treasures in the treasury of the Nanyue Kingdom, and the Weichen captured more than 20 warships that still could not be transported, and ...... from Lingnan Road"
How much Su Dingfang seized this time, it is estimated that Su Dingfang himself does not know, anyway, it is just a sentence, rich, completely rich, Su Dingfang himself did not expect that a small South Vietnamese country can have such wealth.
The emperor actually knew about these seizures for a long time, this time it was to let the ministers of the court, the nobles of the country, and the family take a look at how rich the world is, don't just stare at this bit of land in the country, want to make money and make a fortune, go out, of course, this proposal was mentioned by Yu Zhiqian before, Yu Zhiqian himself did not remember, the emperor just wrote it down.
"Well, all the seizures can be transported to Chang'an?"
"Back to Your Majesty, most of the treasures have been transported back to Chang'an, and some of the rest of the goods have arrived from Lingnan along the way to Chang'an, and a large number of food and other materials have been ......."
"There's a gift list!"
Su Dingfang took out the gift list that had been prepared, Wu Sangui took it, and sent it to the emperor, after the emperor glanced at it, he nodded and threw it to Wu Sangui: "Present it all!" ”
"Whoa!"
Wu Sangui looked at the things on the gift list, cleared his throat and began to read: "Five top-grade blood corals, thirty goose eggs and black pearls......"
As soon as the words fell, ten wrestlers carried huge blood coral to the main hall and placed it in the center of the hall, followed by four maids, holding four plates in their hands, which contained black pearls the size of goose eggs, and each one was very round, rolling back and forth in the plate as the maid walked, belonging to the best pearls among the pearls.
"Forty pieces of the best sapphires, fifty pieces of the best rubies, the best ......"
One by one, the treasures were constantly sent from the outside of the main hall to the palace, most of them were some natural treasures, and finally these treasures continued from the position of the dragon chair under the main hall to the position at the entrance of the main hall.
"Thirty-six thousand catties of spices!"
"Rice is not counted!"
When Wu Sangui finished reading, the hall was as quiet as death, and even Di Renjie, who had been pretending to be asleep, had to grow his eyes and look at the treasures placed in front of him, these things one or two may not be very unusual for these ministers, but these things appeared together, and the number was so large that it could be described as shocking.
The emperor was stunned, he had only seen a column of numbers on the recital, but when the things on these numbers turned into real objects and appeared in front of his eyes, even the emperor was in a trance.
Only Yu Zhiqian was a little calm, because Yu Zhiqian knew that he had no share in these things, but Yu Zhiqian believed that Su Dingfang must have prepared one for himself, definitely not as much, but not too little, but Yu Zhiqian was more curious about why Nanyue had so much wealth.
"These were all captured in South Vietnam?"
After the emperor calmed down, he looked at Su Dingfang, now Su Dingfang has been surrounded by many treasures, he stood up and wanted to salute but there was no place to stand, the emperor waved his hand: "No need to be polite to sit down and talk back!" ”
"Your Majesty, back to Your Majesty, some of these seizures are from the treasury of Nanyue, and some are found from the people of Nanyue and the mountains and forests, Your Majesty does not know, although Nanyue is remote, the people are dull, but it is extremely rich, the black pearl contributed this time is the best selected by Weichen, and the black pearl that Weichen is less than the size of his thumb and discarded it directly......"
"In addition, the mountains and forests are full of grain, fruits and vegetables, and mineral deposits, and the bull head gold seized by Weichen is a gold mine found in the mountains and forests, in addition to that, ......"
Su Dingfang explained the origin of these things, the emperor nodded after hearing this, squinted his eyes and observed the expressions of the ministers around him, the emperor was not holding back, but purely to see clearly, the emperor has short-sightedness, and he can't see clearly when he sees far.
As far as the emperor could see, he could see the fine light in the eyes of those ministers, as well as the nobles and the children of the family, and the emperor believed that as long as he said a word to retreat from the dynasty now, this group of people would immediately rush home and go to Nanyue with arms, such a lucrative thing, these guys would definitely not give up.
This is legal income, and some ministers are careful to embezzle? I also have to worry about losing my head, and now, a golden road appears in front of me, how not to make people's hearts move.
"Well, good job, you mention the Golden Country in your recital, I don't know where?"
"Back to Your Majesty, the country of gold is Wei Chen, I learned from the mouths of some captive ministers of the South Vietnamese State that it is said that there is a country of gold, and there is gold everywhere......"
Yu Zhiqian was stunned when he heard this, the country of gold? I've never heard of it, it seems that there is only the Central Plains Dynasty with this name, and there is a European named Marco or something pineapple, after coming to the East, he said that the East is a country of gold.
"Do you have an exact address?"
"Weichen didn't find out!"
"It's a pity!"
The speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, and the ministers and nobles of the court and the central government silently wrote down the place of the Golden Country, and were ready to send someone to investigate, if they wanted to find it, then ......
Many people became excited, looked at their colleagues, and were vaguely wary, these people were their competitors.
Near noon, the emperor announced his retirement from the court, the ministers looked at the jewels in the hall, and slowly withdrew from the hall, but when this group of people left the hall, they were stunned again, the square outside the hall was full of all kinds of spices, these spices were very valuable in the Yutang Empire, and a pound of spices was almost equivalent to a pound of gold, but now it was placed on the square like garbage.
In addition, there was a flash of golden light not far away, and Su Dingfang also transported some of the high-purity gold ore mined back, which was also placed on the square, shining brightly under the sun.
"That kind of wild land in Nanyue is so rich?" Cui Yong, the head of the Cui clan in Qinghe, slowly walked over from the spice and gold mines, muttering to himself.
As a big family that has been inherited for thousands of years, these things may be available in the family if they are put together, but this is the wealth accumulated for thousands of years, and Su Dingfang also said just now, there are countless spices, minerals, and grains in that place, if the Cui family can occupy a place, then the Cui family ......
"Your Majesty, we have to eat this bait!"
Some ministers who could understand shook their heads slightly, but there was no way to change anything, knowing that this was a bait, but they had to eat it, but after eating this bait, the threat of the Central Plains family to the royal family became smaller and smaller.
If the family wants to get these wealth, they must sacrifice a lot of things, in addition to the vanguard of the family's imperial expansion, the royal family is clearly showing the family, see it, the wealth is there, you want to go by yourself, it's easy to go, but what about coming back? Once the Maison mobilizes its strength to go out, it wants to come back......
Yu Zhiqian pushed his bicycle slowly and leisurely to the edge of the gold mine, and when he saw some good quality, he squatted down to pick them up and take a look, and the guards beside him stared at Yu Zhiqian so hard that he didn't even blink his eyes.
"My Royal Highness the Crown Prince, will I still steal this bit of gold ore?" Yu Zhiqian was stared at uncomfortably by the guards, threw the ore casually, and then got up and prepared to leave.
"His Royal Highness the Prince, Your Majesty has decreed that no one is allowed to take it privately, and these things must be handed over to the treasury, and the treasury is taken privately......"
"Ahem, cough, good eyes, what's your name!"
"The end will leave Lou!"
Yu Zhiqian was stunned for a moment when he heard this name, and then took out a piece of gold ore in his sleeve and lowered it to these ores: "No wonder your eyes are so good!" Now there is none, gone! After finishing speaking, Yu Zhiqian got on his bicycle and rushed to the outside of the palace, but as soon as he got on the car, he heard someone shouting behind him.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"
Turning his head, he saw Su Dingfang trotting over, and after Yu Zhiqian saw Su Dingfang, he raised his eyebrows: "Yo, General Su!" ”
"Don't blame His Royal Highness the Prince, the last general also received His Majesty's will, and this is ......"
Yu Zhiqian patted him on the shoulder: "Yes, well done, I didn't lose the face of this palace!" ”
"Your Highness Xie praised, Your Highness, the last general also prepared a gift for His Highness!"
After Yu Zhiqian heard this, he was vaguely looking forward to it, but there was no change on his face: "Well, I know, I'm done and go to the East Palace to find the palace, and the palace still has some things to explain to you!" ”
"Whoa!"
Looking at the back of Su Dingfang trotting away, Yu Zhiqian touched his chin, and he didn't know how many gifts this guy had prepared for himself, this guy had been with him for a while, and he should know what he liked, it seems that the fortune teller called the mud bodhisattva said well, he has good luck this year, and the next time he touches him, he won't beat him.
"Big brother, big brother!"
I don't know when, Lao Qi came to Yu Zhiqian's side out of breath, directly ignored the mountains of spices and gold mines around him, and looked at Yu Zhiqian: "Big brother, can you lend some money to my younger brother!" ”